Date: 27/09/2010

Micrium and Validated Software Corporation (VSC) announce joint venture

Micrium has announced a joint venture with Validated Software Corporation (VSC) to design, develop, and market safety-critical solutions for the embedded market. The joint venture aims at delivering alternate solutions to other commercial and in-house systems. This venture also aims at increasing customer access to safety-critical compliant RTOS technology with strategic and tactical alignment on designs, technologies, and service/support.

VSC's semi-custom Validation Suites and Validation Kits satisfy the certification requirements of medical, avionics, industrial, and rail and transportation regulatory agencies that enforce safety standards applied to mission-critical and safety-critical equipment.

"Micrium has worked closely with Validated for over ten years," said Jean Labrosse, founder, CEO and president of Micrium. "Micrium and Validated enjoy a substantial presence in today's safety-critical market segment. This rapidly expanding market requires not only cost-effective solutions, but also those built on solid reputations, flexibility, and a long history of addressing this demanding marketplace. Together, Micrium and Validated Software are a natural fit to provide solutions going forward."

"By partnering with Micrium, we bring increased value to customers by integrating our certification support into Micrium's safety-critical strategy. Our decision to work more closely with Micrium was based on the market's growing need for affordable certified RTOS solutions. Along with its commitment to customer satisfaction and quality, Micrium is highly respected by embedded software developers," said Scott Nowell, president of Validated Software Corp. "Our customers will clearly benefit from earlier and tighter integration as well as the collective scale that our companies bring to the partnership."

With VSC's certification packages, Micrium's µC/OS kernel and components are certifiable to the rigorous requirements demanded by software safety standards such as DO-178B, ED-12B, DO-278, ED-109, FDA 510(k), IEC-60601, IEC-62304, ISO-14971, IEC-61508, UL 1998, IEC-62679, EN50128, 49CFR236 and more.